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The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business QUOTES

1 " In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive work and, for the first time, housewives were classified as unoccupied. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

2 " The influence of bottle-feeding makes many people think that ‘nipple sucking’ is breastfeeding. It is not. If the baby sucks his mother’s nipples as he would a bottle teat, it damn well hurts. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

3 " There are no memorials to the thousands of women who died prematurely through extreme physical hardship. These were the women who produced and serviced the workers who created the wealth and consequent power of Europe and North America. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

4 " When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could prevent more deaths than any other single strategy; even more than such key benefits as the provision of safe water, sanitation, immunisation and medical services. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

5 " Damaging hospital practices made breastfeeding a near-impossible procedure and only women with alternative sources of support and knowledge were able to do it. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

6 " The German word for breastfeeding, ‘Stillen’, means to quieten and soothe as well as to give the breast. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

7 " The commercial and medical pressures to use artificial milks would have kept breastmilk supplies low. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

8 " Black women have suffered more coercion into sterilisation or the use of riskier forms of contraception.30 "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

9 " US black women are three times more likely to die than white women from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, and this disparity has widened in the 21st century. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

10 " No amount of advice will prevent the women from carrying on this deadly habit.” This was written in 1917, but the attitude was still around in 1952 when clinic nurses were advising mothers that seven to nine months was the desirable length of time for breastfeeding. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

11 " In every country, rich or poor, thousands of babies are treated for illness every day because they are given foods and fluids other than breastmilk. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

12 " The hospital’s endorsement of early artificial feeding conveyed the idea that it was a safe feeding method. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

13 " misguided propaganda on infant feeding should be punished as the most miserable form of sedition, and that these deaths should be regarded as murder. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

14 " Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

15 " Doctors, however, are just as vulnerable to marketing tactics as the rest of us; companies merely use different methods to seduce them. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

16 " sleeping ‘through the night’, even for adults, is a particularly modern concept linked with industrialisation. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

17 " Confidence plays a huge part and if a woman has seen breastfeeding all her life and assumes it works, then she will have it. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

18 " When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

19 " Ask a roomful of people what ‘weaning’ means and each assumes they all have the same understanding. They do not. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business

20 " Whenever manufacturers claim to be responding to a ‘need’, it seems that people have to be reminded through advertising in case they have forgotten what they craved so desperately. "

― , The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business